Interview: Donald E. Knuth Posted 25 Jan 2000 by advogato (Master) This week, Advogato had the pleasure and honor of interviewing Prof. Donald E. Knuth. He is the author of the TeX typesetting system as well as The Art of Computer Programming and a number of deep, insightful papers and books. The interview took place by phone on a rainy California winter day. The topics covered the freeness of ...

Go to the first, previous, next, last section, table of contents. Donald Knuth Donald Knuth is generally recognized as the Father of Computer Science: He has published numerous papers in both computer science and mathematics. (He also comments that switching back and forth between the two fields requires a distinct mental changing of gears.) He founded modern computational complexity theory, ...

Donald Knuth wins Kyoto Prize Donald Knuth, a computer scientist at Stanford University, was one of three winners of the 1996 Kyoto Prizes for lifetime achievement inthe arts and sciences. The prizes are awarded by the Inawori Foundation, and include a cash award of 50 million yen. This year's other winners were Mario Capecchi, a human geneticist at the University of Utah, and Willard Van Orman ...

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